Septifer

Septifer is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Septiferinae of the family Mytilidae, the mussels.

Septifer

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MytilinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 193 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 193 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 193 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 193 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 193 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 193 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 193 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 63 of 193 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 193 occurrencesEocene — about 17 of 193 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 193 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 193 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 193 occurrencesPleistocene — about 64 of 193 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–235 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 8 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 43 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 12 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 70 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

193 occurrences of Septifer on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

193 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

54 formations

Moreno — 37.46°N, 121.19°WMoreno — 37.26°N, 121.16°WMoreno — 37.25°N, 121.15°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.28°N, 157.70°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 157.90°WWaimanalo — 21.38°N, 158.15°WRoca — 36.20°S, 69.50°WRoca — 35.85°S, 69.80°WRoca — 34.73°S, 69.65°WRoca — 35.43°S, 69.73°WRoca — 36.55°S, 68.15°WJagüel — 36.20°S, 69.50°WJagüel — 36.75°S, 68.72°WJagüel — 34.73°S, 69.65°WJagüel — 35.43°S, 69.73°WJagüel — 35.85°S, 69.80°WJagüel — 36.55°S, 68.15°WJagüel — 36.90°S, 67.92°WMaéjima — 34.60°N, 134.17°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.25°N, 22.57°EUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WEboshi — 32.32°N, 130.35°EEboshi — 32.34°N, 130.36°EEnokuchi — 32.34°N, 130.33°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°EFelsörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsörs — 46.88°N, 17.63°EEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WCaballas — 14.94°S, 75.48°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.75°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°ESandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°W

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The named rock units Septifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Septifer and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Septifer and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,553 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 135 sites for Septifer, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

77 references

Each of the 193 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 65 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Septifer

Credit
Philippe Bourjon
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Septifer bilocularis · usnm:invertebrate zoology:661579

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Everything alive alongside itMytilinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Récluz 1848)